Refining my DaiZy experience.

Posted by Havoc on May 14, 2013; 7:01pm
URL: http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.163.s1.nabble.com/Refining-my-DaiZy-experience-tp6452.html

Hey there,

I'm fairly new to the DayZ gaming, I really enjoyed Arma2 a while back, I got into DayZ a bit but then noticed that a mix of Battlefield and L4D isn't my thing.
DayZ SP turned out to be much more fun than MP, but I still have some issues with it that turn me off, and I'd like to know if I can change some of them.

Zombies: I really hate the DayZ zombies, I don't subscribe to the "runners" theory in general, just seems inplausible that a rotting corpse can put that much strain on tissue that is partially eaten by bacteria and worms. I understand that the only way to make them annoying in an open world like Arma2 was to make them fast, since slow hordes only really work in closed environments.
Still, they add nothing to the game but annoyance, in MP they give away positions of players by just spawning or following them. They can be lost in any building with 2 exits and outsmarted by bushes, they do nothing for me.
They follow the player and make really annoying noises the entire time, especially in Breaking Point which I think ripped the zombie sounds from Dead Island I believe.

My question is:
Is there a way to heavily reduce Zombie spawns, or better even, make them Passive towards the player(like they are towards the NPCs). Sure it's nice to have them add to the Zombie Apoc ambience, have them wander the towns, but they add nothing else to the game for me.

And the second part:
Can I increase the amount of Bandits/Survivor spawns, especially groups of survivors. I like hunting them.
Bandits don't group up obviously since they engage each other, but the biggest group I found was in Factions 1.3, where I met 3 survivors which engaged me on my way to the NE Airfield. Once.
In 1.5 I was gunned down by 3 bandits before getting to the first settlement, with no way to defend myself since you no longer spawn with a gun. On another spawn I got mixed up in a firefight among 6 different NPCs that all spawned at the border of cherno. That was nice.
In Breaking Point SP I hardly ever find any NPCs.
Or am I just never getting to the right locations?

Are there any ways I can adjust those factors?

BTW, both in Factions and Breaking Point SP, whenever I use a vehicle to get to a location, absolutely 0 loot spawns. Drove with a Motorcycle to a crossing with a Mall and Office, both were absolutely clean and empty. Is that a general DaiZy bug?

All help is appreciated.
Cheers~